The Mayor of Lekwa Municipality, Louis Thabethe, unveiled nine vehicles to bolster services across the municipality to ensure it improves service delivery to its communities.
The municipality said the new fleet was a commitment the mayor made to ensure it improves how it responds to service delivery challenges.
“This is part of our strategy to rebuild this municipality by ensuring that service delivery is improving. This will assist us in responding better to service delivery challenges across all the wards,” said Thabethe.
The fleet comprises seven bakkies, a firefighting vehicle donated by the provincial government and a tipper truck from the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment.
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According to the municipality, they will strategically allocate the vehicles to service delivery sections such as road maintenance, electrical, engineering, water and sanitation, mechanical workshop, revenue enhancement, fire and rescue and community services and safety.
The vehicles should hit the ground running to curb illegal dumping, attend to water services and electrical infrastructure and respond to fire and rescue.
“In the next financial year, we will purchase additional vehicles to improve and fast-track how we deliver services to our communities,” added Thabethe.
Thabethe asked Lekwa employees assigned to the new vehicles to take good care of them and not abuse municipal assets.
“These vehicles are for service delivery and nothing else. I appeal to all employees who will be using them that these are tools for trade, so take good care of them. I also urge residents to report any abuse to the municipality,” concluded Thabethe.
